About me:
My business card.
Projects:
Monkey-Spider: A Crawler based Low-Interaction Honeyclient
I have started a project at sourceforge.net based on my work during my diploma thesis. It is hosted at http://monkeyspider.sourceforge.net.
Publications:
Monkey-Spider: Detecting Malicious Websites with Low-Interaction Honeyclients
Ali Ikinci, Thorsten Holz, Felix Freiling
Monkey-Spider: Detecting Malicious Websites with Low-Interaction Honeyclients
Proceedings of Sicherheit 2008, Gesellschaft für Informatik, 2008-04-02.
Paper in English: Monkey-Spider.pdf
This paper has also won the Best Paper Award.
Papers and Presentations:
Media Distribution in CDNs
In the Seminar Content Delivery Networks Winterterm 04/05, I have worked on media distribution for Content Delivery Networks. My work presents three topics, distributed Internet Radio with Icecast, Peer-to-Peer delivery in the Gnutella Network and distributed Web-Caching with Squid.
Paper in German: Media-Distribution-Paper.pdf
Adaption of Websites
During the Mobile Business Seminar in Winterterm 05/06, I have worked on the automatic adaption of websites for mobile devices. My work aims especially on the special requirements of mobile devices.
Presentation and Paper in German: Adaption-Paper.pdf, Adaption-Presentation.pdf
Anonymity in the Internet
At the Seminar Practical Cryptography in Winterterm 05/06 I wrote a paper about anonymity on the Internet and made a presentation. This work shows available systems for anonymity and points at the possible security problems.
Presentation and Paper in German: Anonymity-Paper.pdf, Anonymity-Presentation.pdf
Introduction to Pixelchips
During the Seminar "Ausgewählte Themen in Hardwareentwurf und Optik" in Winterterm 05/06, I made a introductory Presentation about Pixelchips in German. Pixelchips are special purpose Full-Custom-Design Chips which are used for particle detection at experiments in particle physics as at the ATLAS LHC.
Presentation in German: Pixelchips.pdf
Diploma Thesis: "Monkey-Spider: Detecting malicious Web sites"
I have written my Diploma thesis at the Laboratory for Dependable Distributed Systems till May 2007.
Abstract:
"Client side attacks are on the rise. Malicious Web sites are posing a serious threat to client security. There is neither a freely available comprehensive database of threats on the Web nor sufficient freely available tools to build such. This work will introduce the Monkey-Spider Internet analysis framework. Utilizing it as a client honeypot we portray the challenge in such an approach and evaluate our system as a high-speed Internet scale analysis tool to build a database of threats found in the wild. Furthermore, the evaluation of this system in the analysis of different crawls over two month is presented along with the lessons learned. Additionally, alternative use cases for our framework are presented."
Presentation: Final-presentation-Monkey-Spider.pdf Diploma-Thesis-Ali-Ikinci.pdf